Rob Waugh – Daily Mail.com July 2, 2024
A growing number of people are ditching their smartphones for ‘dumbphones’ that only call and text to avoid being in ‘zombie mode.’
The simple devices have skyrocketed in popularity, as 2.8 million were sold in the US last year with people proclaiming they feel calmer and more present in their ordinary lives.
A California woman told DailyMail.com that she made the switch after realizing she spent the entire summer on her smartphone, saying she barely remembered the time – she even forgot where she walked her dog.
Caroline Cadwell explained that switching to a dumbphone was impractical at first, but then became freeing.
‘Space and time, is how I’d describe it. It’s amazing how much your relationships can gain from giving it up,’ she said.
Companies such as Dumbwireless are selling the simple devices devices to addicted smartphone users, and a growing number of anti-smartphone organizations are trying to curb the use of the devices, particularly among children.
Activists point to statistics such as the fact that the arrival of smartphones seems to have coincided with a surge in rates of depression and anxiety – which rose by more than 50 percent between 2010 and 2019.
Cadwell spent 15 years working in high-growth start-ups in Barcelona and San Francisco before she left a job due to burnout – and realized her smartphone was the problem.
‘I left a job because I was burned out, and spent almost three months in what I’d describe as zombie mode, she said.
‘It was summer, and I barely remember it–I did nothing. It was when I was nearly out of this time and feeling better that I started to reflect on what about my burnout was in my control, and the biggest contributing factor was a lack of boundaries with work.’
Previously she had felt the need to be available at all times, even for 11pm calls.
But Cadwell realized the depths of her addiction when she couldn’t remember where she had walked her dog because she was responding to Slack messages the whole time.
She said that switching to a dumbphone was impractical at first, but then became freeing.
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I keep a dumb phone and go online on a refurb computer. It was a T-Mobile/Orange phone-line but EE bought it out and I’m not impressed by these sharks. They took £20 off my phone credit a few years ago, just took it, saying I wasn’t using my phone enough. Damned cheek. Recently they texted me to say if I don’t use my phone more they’ll close my account to re-use the number. This is just another problem we get from Paul Craig Roberts’ supply-side economics. A provider can just take the piss. Now I must make occasional calls I shouldn’t need to make just to fritter money to EE. I ring my doctor’s surgery because it’s a pre-recorded ‘press this number’ deal and a few seconds’ call costs 40p. It seems that satisfies.
EE’s broadband dongle service isn’t much better, it’s forever losing the connection. Very frustrating. My3 dongle is better but it’s more expensive and they won’t allow access to some sites. They wouldn’t allow access to tts for a while so I had to use a VPN via Ireland to get here. But I’d avoid EE if you can.
It looks like some of the morons are beginning to figure out the Commie smartphone scheme.
“Toss the smartphones in the trash & their techno-Communist agenda evaporates. For the porno/smartphone is the medium to institute/advance ZWOGs totalitarian techno-Communist digital control over individuals/humanity.” –Nico X
Good article; i too live part of the year in a “quiet zone” where i get zero phone service, zero wifi, no TV, and begin to feel a whole lot better, its where I shed my addictions. No sports scores, no truthseeker, no nothing. It seems to me it is all so fake. I consume less. It’s always “ 1967 “ when I’m back in zero mode, not a lot of stuff around me. When I do waste time getting over to a a zone to check on mail, banking, and get stuff to read , alert to the drivers masturbating on their phones, i get all creepy with the feeling things are crawling all over me; returning home , shaking it off, realize there is nothing good or interesting out there. Except a good truthseeker article now and then .
Me? I’m sticking to land line…too old school for this tech nonsense! Plus I am spending less time online…I prefer reality in the rural remote.
Yes…
Dumping the phone is the smartest move…the best thing one can do..without the end node on the network..which of course is YOU..the Target…
..there can be no technocratic dystopia…
That photo at the top, someone should have turned the hose on those budding imbeciles…
The portable electric Jew thumb-f*ck mind-f*ck machine is one of THE most nefarious things to come along in a long long time. A good, accurate subheading in the image at the bottom as well; “We are no longer programming the technology; now it’s programming us.”
I love my girlfriend, and she’s pretty, smart, talented, has a good sense of humor, is Jew-wise, and she has a world-class, gravity defying set of natural knockers, but she is WAY too into the dystopia of “social media”, and I’m going to have to dump her soon if she doesn’t knock that shit off.
And when I’m at work and some slack-jawed drooling moron hypnotized moron approaches me guffawing “You HAVE to see this TikTok!”, I literally want to pimp-slap the piss out of them, then toss their device AND them through a window.
I have always controlled my habits, they have never controlled me….well, except for maybe womanizing 🙂 …. I have never been “into” my devices, avoid mobile phone apps like the plague, and don’t even have the f*cking thing with me half the time, which blows peoples’ minds for some reason. I KNOW they spy on people, and had that capability for decades. I KNOW the microphones and cameras can be remotely activated. There’s a reason the manufacturers starting making it nearly impossible for the device owner to take the battery out. Any “convenience” the device offers is far surpassed by the damage they do to the weaker-minded.
If my mobile never worked again, it wouldn’t make much of a difference, except for the better, while most people would be plunged into chaos and deep depression to lose their mind-f*ck machine…but they would actually be ultimately much better off.
Not to mention the fact that “Smart phones” are also GPS tracking monitors and it also has eyes & ears for everything you do and where you do it. 5G will enhance these devices as targeting devices for nefarious purposes., making you vulnerable to multiple sources of targeted microwave radiation. Cell towers,Streetlights, appliances etc are all equipped with internal hardware to join “the internet of things”, wireless with you in the middle !
What ‘smart’ phones have intensified is the feeling that one is not alright as he is within & outside of ‘social media’.
Cell phones came into being following 35 years of planned emergencies, crises & mass fatalities whipping us into a state where immediate communication seemed necessary.
The reason why smartphone users along the street are dumb is because they rely on the app that says: “left foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, right foot, left foot…”
But yeah, mobiles are good servants but poor masters – like the TV. I have had a “dumb phone” for years. My current credit lasts ages. Mine is switched off most of the time. I do believe they are frying peoples brains. I wince when I see the very young with them and wonder if we will one day see brain cancers on an unprecedented scale.
And I must report, my PC is hardwired. I connect to Wi-Fi when downloading Kindle. I have observed before in these comments that I may have a tiny pain in the front of my brain when connecting. I can’t be absolutely sure on this as I’ve said before because I don’t know if there is some subconscious wanting to in order to vindicate my preference for a hardwire connection. I would be interested in others experiences on this.
There is such a bloodbath headed this way and no one sees it coming. Mayorkas is gonna release the hordes, fully armed with AK47s and razor-sharp machetes, upon the American public. Old expression ; never come between a Jew and his money, and that’s exactly what is threatening them, despite the endless theft of every penny in our beloved Treasury, and the trillions rolling off the printing presses going straight to the MOB. This slaughter will make the 1st Bolshevik Revolution 1918 Russia look like silly putty. Over 200 million Whites will be raped, beheaded, eviscerated, and turned into general roadkill, and it will be done mercilessly, and for what ? Well of course, MONEY. In the end, it all comes down to MONEY. Money = power = control = more money. While we all stand distracted by this thing or that thing, we are currently in that moment one could refer to as “THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM.”
Are you ready to be gutted by people with weird bearded faces, deadly evil angry eyes, brains boiling in hatred conditioned by the Zionists against YOU ? Just keep looking the other way and pretending everything is aok, yup. Not gonna happen to me, yup. Others will die, not me, yup. Art the Clown Terrifier 3 is just a movie, right ? It’s not a foreshadown of the coming violence, nope.
Your addiction to that stupid cellphone is your undoing. It’s the single most purposeful distraction the enemy relishes, and has allowed them to amass the single most gigantic foreign-invading army this world has ever known, at least 5 million strong, coming to your neighborhood to yank you out of your homes, rape you violently, then gut you like a pig. Americans think they know what hatred is. They don’t, but they’re about to get a taste served up to them by Mr Mayorkas, that little bald-headed, flat-chested, arrogant, supremacist, White hating Jew piece of shit. Revenge is a dish best served cold, just ask the Jews.
I was the last person I knew to get an “Electronic Jew, Version Two.” That, after shunning Version One (TV) for 15 years.
I rarely text, average 2-3 callouts per day, and have only one social media on my phone. Telegram, which I only rarely use to comment and never use for communication.
That said, the smartphone is an immense time waster: I have a huge collection of e-books, garnered from Z-Library and Archive.org, but I never find time to read them.
Using the Web is essential, but perhaps 80 percent of it is non-productive or unnecessary and could be arbitrarily relegated to a couple of hours at a desktop, if smart phones did not exist — plus the Spy-on-You features are a definite problem.
I wonder if there is an app that converts a smart phone to a dumb pocket calculator, lol.
Never had a smart phone. I have a flip phone that I keep in my car turned off and wrapped in foil. Sometimes I have to contact someone for one reason or another while on the road. My cost is less that $30 a year. I use a land line at home. It irritates the shit out of me when some zombie hands me their phone to see some crap. If you have any sense, most don’t, get rid of the smart phone, it’s making you stupid.